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GI50HOI3 PUTNAM, Editor.
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WASH IKOTON, ' A 11 (?.' 2 2 . The
first official summary of the wur ac
tivities of tliu United Stutes will bo
Issued In a few dnya by Secretary
Tinker, to bo followed wockly there
after with statements of such matters
as may bo disclosed without violat
ing military precautions,
Tbe exact nature of tho statements
has not been inndo known. Secretary
linker gnld be would go just as far
as tho military advisers of tbe gov
ernment deemed It wise toward in
formlnK tho public of what was in
nrogrosH.
' Information of every sort reaching
tho department will bo scrutinized for
publlshablo mattor. When American
troops got Into action In France,
dally statements probably will bo Is
sued, founded upon tho reports from
General Pershing.
) Regarding many rumors of disas
ters to American troops or shipping
constantly being circulated, Mr. lia
kor roltorated emphatically tho
plodgo of tho administration to with
hold no misadventure of tho forces
from tho public. ICvory untoward
happening will bo announced prompt
ly, he suid, and tho public may rest
assured that no nows mean good news
to that extent, Such rumors as have
beon curront recently, ho said, wero
without any foundation whntovor.
', Tho extent to which naval happen
ings can be madu public has been a
difficult mntler. Secretary Daniels
lias promised that news of disasters
will bo given out with as littla delay
as possible, but It Is not to bo ex
pected thnt news of dnmago to naval
craft, temporary disablement of de
stroyers or other vessels, either as u
result of action or thru accident, will
bo disclosed. Tho practice of all
countries has been to keep tho enemy
as much In tho dark ns possible on
bucIi nmtlers.
REFUSE APPROVAL
WHY GERMANY WANTS PEACE
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SAl.KM, dr., Ausf. 22.-Stale
Tiva-iurer Kay, aclinir fur the stale
board oil ennlrnl, has nwnnlcl the
1100,0110 r . ,., ,.,.( r,l lu
K. II. linllins & Sun of" rliicnco, for
$:iSS,(M0. This was Hie holiest t,f.
I'cr received when bids were opened
lust week.
This money is to he applied in
mnlchiny; tho federal appropriation
fur improvement of I'urest t.uil post
roads in Ihe stale. While the state
money soon will he mailable, the
prospect for (idling Hie co-operative
work under way on Hie road se
lected by the stale is ni.l hiii;lil, be
cause of Hie inability of the slate
liiirhway department lo prove to Hie
Fiitisfnction of Hie itoM'iiniiciit that
the road will he it rural post road.
The state highway commission se
lected a stretch of five miles, known
(is the Wolf Creek hill roiul, on Hie
1'acil'ie highway Ibis side of (Irnnls
1'iikk, on which to lic;:in the expendi
ture of Ihe co-operative fund. The
project would cost ifNl.tiOO, it is es
timated. So far the piveninicnt of
ficials have declined to approve of
lisinjf the government finals on Hint
road.
GEORGE A. WHITE GIVEN
RANK OF A MAJOR
WASIIIN'OTtlN, A lit. 22. -tie...
A. While, adjutant veueral of Ore
Iton, linn been eppoinicil assistant di
visional ndjuliint general, with rank
of major. This will place him on the
division stuff with Hie troops in
Cnlifiirniii.
With Medford irtxle li Medford runilo
Til 10 reasons why (lermany would like to have peace
at. tlie present time are manifold. Aside from the
faet tlitit she is stronger now, than she will ever he again
during this war, that she is now making war in eneniv ter-
litory ;md holds vast readies of Belgian, French, Russian,
Serbian and Kuiiiaiiian lands, there ;ire conditions at home
that make it wise, if not imperative, that the war come to
,'in early end.
The Hermans are a docile and disciplined people. They
jOve a ruler and master. J hey apparently delight in being
forbidden to do all manner of tilings. They are a folk
among whom revolutions do not thrive. They have too
wholesome a respect for the kaiser's soldiers and the
kaiser's police. ,
ut the ruling caste of Germany apparently knows
there is a limit to which even Germans may be driven.
German' today is a land of thin, underfed, underclothed
people. It is a land upon every home of which Death has
laid his icy finger. There are blind men and maimed men
in every village. It is a land in which people never smile
any more. Carking care has taken the place of easy mirth.
And the depressed spirits of the people are not uplifted
when they read in a worker's journal, like the Textilar
heiter of Berlin, that Uernhard llauptig, a member of the
textile workers' union, has "exchanged the temporal for
the eternal life." Nor do they rejoice when the article
continues that his relatives, applying for financial help,
were instead given a death cerlii'icato by the district med
ical officer which said: "The undersigned hereby certi
fies that the .r)8-year-od factory worker, 5ernhard Haup
tig, was found dead on .'June .15 in Engclsbcrg pastures.
According to investigations which were, duly carried out,
the above-named person died ot starvation."
To which the Text ilarbeiter added the terrible thought:
"llauptig is not the first norwill he be the last member of
the textile workers' union to 'die of starvation."
This simple item, with its plain truths, gives the lie to
the announcements of the Prussian masters that Germany
has enormous resources and her food supply is holding out
well. A land in which the resources are ample is not a
land in which an industrious, worker wanders the fields
and dies of starvation like ainegleeted dog.
No wonder Yorwaens, a socialist organ of Germany,
which sometimes dares to hint at the truth, said in u recent
issue:
"The present internal conditions in Germanv remind
one of tins festive horseman immortalized in the Fliegende
Blaetter who, being asked, 'Meyer, where are you riding
tor Jrankly replied, 'Mow do 1 know 'J Ask the horse.'
"We ask: 'Quo vadis Germaniar"
Now the socialists are not the only ones who are askinc
whither Germany is going. It is being asked sullenly, sav
agely, timidly or worriedly, as the case may be, by every
one in kaiserthuni. All recognize that the breaking point
may lie reaciieti. j Here is a stage beyond which even Ger
mans will not endure. Wars have sometimes ceased be-
uise the people have absolutely refused to prosecute them
any longer. Dynasties have sometimes been toppled into
the dust because people have refused to starve any longer.'
That is what is worrying the Jlohenzollern outfit. Thcv
are not winning abroad and they tear conditions at home.
Hence their strenuous efforts to end the war before win
ter, before defeat, before a starved and frozen people may'
find the courage to drive them from their thrones.
1ST
THE MISSISSIPPI ASS
T IIK loudest bray raised in the senate in behalf of Ger
iiimiiv i h' .l:imi's Viipil'iiivin if MioLiluLMi,,,! ......
of the little band of willful men who use their public office
ro neiray tiieir couulry. Jle calls America s entry into the
war an "entry for profits," and in long-winded sentences
depicts himself as void of patriotism.
American honor, American prestige. American riirhls.
American lives, American property all these things
might be attacked by the kaiser's men and there would not
be a flicker of Vardanian's pulse. He is so pro-German
that America's entrance into the great war means to him
i hat America is stabbing Germany in the back while Eng
land and France hold her down.
The great American slate of Mississippi with its very
small number of Teutons Kilili Germans and 117 Austri
ans is well and ably represented in the United States sen
ate by John Sharp Williams, who thinks and talks like an
American. And the same great slate with !)!l,5 per cent
native j.oru population is sadly misrepresented hv James
K. Vardanian.
Fortunately Mississippi is shortly to decide whether
Vardanian shall continue in the national capital or remain
at home, lie brayed his way into the senate some six vears
igo as a regulation "niirj:cr -hailer. 1 1 s t b, li, n,.,i
his wav out
he will bray
( Icrnianv.
TROLLEY SERVICE
as a dved-iu-t
opet,
e-wool friend of
'Fi
SAN l- llANCISeo. Aug. "'J.- He-
spite some minor outbreaks on the
part of strikers, the I'nllcd liallroads
announced today that Its street car
service Is gradually becoming normal
t
thru the Importation of suhHtitutcs.
Strike leaders admitted an Improve
ment In the car scrv-in. over yester
day but continue their agitation. The
inostion of fining union men vldlng
on I nil i'il linllnmds ears Is to he tak
en up Ktlday by the loe.il labor coun
cil. A conductor was badly beaten up
tarly toil.iy and a motortucu lultircd
by a kloae. After a riot last night n
carman was sent to the hospital with
a fractured skull, but he Is cipected
to recover.
CANADA 10 CEASE
OTTAWA, An::. Tlio imporinl
munition-; Un;ul tudav imnomiri'd
Out tho proiluHittn of munitions in
CiuiMilii 1 wnnM ln viiM'ontinm-d, s
no loniror iH't'rnry, cvoopt in. some
lino! which in tmrt will ho protluccl
in h'MMioil (u;inlitit'. Some nf I ho
I'liinU n t'l'i'ftv'il in coiimNiih'ih'c will
Vt'Minir pre-w iir m l . ii ic-i in then
regular Iuk'S olhors will cn-niio in
I'lntluciiiMi of Oii!initint for ship.
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. Onepncknrre
proves it. 25c at all druggists.
OF 10 STATES
JiKOUIXG, Cal., An-. 22. Gover
nor Stephens und party of state of
fieials who have been touring the
north western California . state high
ways, were liero tidiiy, returning
from the Croseont 1 'it v roud nioetin.tr.
'lodges between fJovornor Witliy
ooiiiho and other Oieiron officials
nnd the ralifornians to build n low
jrrade coast hijrhwiiy which will pro
vide an all-vear routo Jrom San
KrAimiseo to Portland, have been ex
changed nt Crescent City, at a, two
days' session.
At the meeting (here Monday Del
Norte county asked the state high
way commission to build a paved
highway from the Humboldt county
lino to the Curry county, Oregon,
line, the request beinif backed by -r0
boosters from Coos and Curry coun
ties, Oregon, who pledged a contin
uation highway to Marshfiold. The
state eommission promises such a
highway only to Crescent; City; ns
Kertiii.if tliat Del Nort county shall
receive nothing further from tlie
state.
There were nineteen speakers at
Monday night's nieetin-;.
C(in;!:issi;iner Stern, for the, Cali
fornia ctt'.ni:ii?:sion, ravo an instruc
live explanation, of tho work in Cali
fornia. '
Governor Stoplions and James A.
Johnston, warden of San Quenlin
prison, explained tlie use of convict
labor on the highway and strnn-rly
indorsed the same as savin1 about
2."t per cent "in highway co-;t besides
saving in prison administration.
There was a picnic at Smith Kiver, at
which MM) were present. The speak
ers were; governor Stcpliens, Warden
Johnson, Judo fluids, Creseent
City; and Henjamin C. Sheldon,
Oraats Pass, spoakinr for Oovernor
Wilhyeoiahe and tho Oregon party.
HUNTER LOST IN
FOR OVER A WEEK
KI.AMATIt FALLS, Or., An-.
Kears for the safety of Horacn
-Mar.-ihall, elcetiicai engineer at the
Fort Klamath Aicucv, Oregon, who
mis.sin in the mountainous KiK-tioii
of tiie Crater lake country, uro now
entertained hv searchers who have
searched (lie ruj-'cd distrii't for
nearly a week without finding the
slightest trace of the man.
J'ark t'onimissioner V. G. Steel of
llm Crater Lake Xalional park i
uiilinir in f ho search.
According to reports reachin
Mumath rails, Mr. Marshall was-
last, seen last Tuesday afternoon
when, carrying liis jfiin and u snial
iiiantil.v of ummunition, he wnndered
away I'roni companion hunters and
evidently became lost. (In his fail
ure to return his friends started
looking fur him. Tlie search has
been coulimicd daily. t
J ne point where .Mr. .Marshall was
last seen is in the western part of
Klamath comily unci in what
known as the lied Indian country.
This section of the country is excep
tionally rouh.
It is i'eared that Mr. Marshall may
have wandered into the recesses of
a box canyon from which he was un
able to Jind his way out. Another
theory is that he niijdit have met
with some accident or been -ucci-ileiilally
drowned in lied, Blanket
river. This river empties into the
Iioirue river and searchers have been
keeping a close watch for the ap
pearance of the body in one of these
rivers.
A. K. YA'iyins, a Klamalh resi
dent, accompanied by his do, is
joining in the hunt. The do- is said
to he unusually friendly to Air. Marshall.
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COPliN'HAGKX, Aug. 22. A tele
Kram from the official Corr bureau
of Vienna seems to indicate that Aus
tria-Hungary will accept the pope's
peaco proposals. A summary of Aus-tro-IIungarian
press opinion circulat
ed by the Corr bureau, .says:
"Tho newspapers regard the con
crete proposals in the peace methods
as a suitable basis for beginning
peaco negotiations, but doubt wheth
er the entente shares this hope.''
In view of the well known prac
tices of tho Corr bureau In preparing
such summaries, this may undoubt
edly bo rcgimlcd as the government's
voice. The bureau thou ingeniously
suggests that when the pope rc'forro.d
to territorial questions between Aus
tria and Italy, he Vould not have hail
Austrian soil in mind, because tho
alienation thereof is not to be discussed.
ENGINEERS' ME IN
LONDON", Aug. 22. An under
standing has been reached between
the government and the Associated
Society of Locomotive Engineers and
Firemen, who have been threatening
a general strike of railway men. The
society had demanded the adoption of
an eight-hour day, but a delegation
that visited Sir Albert Stanley, pres
ident of the board of trade, was in
formed on Sandfly that the govern
ment would discuss the question of
an eight-hour dny only when the war
was ended.
Later, however, the two sides en
tered into further negotiations and
It was believed yesterday that a wny
would be found to reach an agreement.
FRENCH-AMERICAN SYNDICATE
BY ARGENTINE STEAMERS
P.l'KXOS AIKKS, Auir. 22. Tho
I'Yeuch-American" ' syndicate lias
brought a licet belonging to the Ar
gentine Navigation compnny for
Ili.oOO.OOO piastres.
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Crackers
say
"Whether yon buy KNOW FLAKKS in bulk or
in p:u't;ai;e, you nre sure of a dainty, crisp
craelior that will add zcl to a meal or light
luncheon.
Sold In 3 sizes of pacluigcs, and In bulk.
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Ambulanc Service. Cvrunw
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lein i
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Lomts 1
ro 0KDCR $:5.03 u?
Also Cleaning, Pressing and Alirlm i
128 MAIN. UPSTAiaa I
Eses telling her that nothing he
received from hemz brought more
iov, lomgsr-lastEiig pleasure, greater
relief from tliirst and fatigue, than
THE: FLAVOR LASTS
She slipped a stick in every tetter
and mailed him a bon now and then.
Naturaiiy he loves her, she leves
him. and they both love WKICLEV'S.
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